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Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Elon Musk's DOGE leaves a deadly legacy

Heather Digby Parton

DOGE's final tallies include millions of deaths projected by 2030 and over 200,000 job cuts

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Trump’s threats show he is unfit to lead

Sabrina Haake

The president's vile language and investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly could have dangerous consequences

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Why Mitch McConnell killed the hemp buzz

Russell Payne

The Kentucky senator helped end a loophole in hemp law he championed. Now a $28 billion industry could be destroyed

A woman entering a voting polling place. (YinYang / Getty Images)

GOP pushes for DOJ election intervention

Carrie Levine - Votebeat

There’s little precedent or legal authority for what Michigan lawmakers are seeking from the Justice Department.

U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks to press before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Kelly brushes off court-martial threats

Alex Galbraith

The senator from Arizona said he refuses to give in to "bullies"

Lindsey Halligan, attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump, looks on during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House, on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

Comey case thrown out

Garrett Owen

A federal judge ruled that the DOJ prosecutor who brought the case was not lawfully appointed to her role

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) speaks to the press on Capitol Hill on July 24, 2025. ( Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP fears "rough" 2026 midterms

Garrett Owen

Senior Republicans are spilling on internal rifts and plummeting morale as a washout looms

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Republicans mourn passing of DOGE

Garrett Owen

The controversial department promised to cut costs, but may have ended up costing taxpayers instead

David Harbour as Jim Hopper and Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in "Stranger Things" (Netflix)

We outgrew "Stranger Things" years ago

Melanie McFarland

With the cast no longer fitting their child-sized roles, it's past time we all moved on from Hawkins, Indiana

Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter, logo. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Has social media's reckoning arrived?

Sophia Tesfaye

Foreign bots have long plagued X. Musk has introduced a potential fix

Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Kirk's death is tearing MAGA apart

Amanda Marcotte

The killing of the Turning Point USA founder didn’t unify the base — it triggered infighting

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - JUNE 14: U.S. Rep. Ruwa Romman attends as people protest in Philadelphia as part of the No Kings Rallies at Love Park on June 14, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for No Kings)

The populist pitch for flipping Georgia

Russell Payne

Ruwa Romman, a state representative, says economic populism is Democrats' best shot in Georgia's governor's race

Travis Hutchison, a soybean farmer, on his family's farm in Cordova, Maryland, on October 10, 2025. Soybean prices "are really depressed because of the trade war," Hutchison told AFP. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Farmers bear the costs of Trump policies

Kee Hyun Park, Shannon P. Carcelli - The Conversation

Big pro-Trump bloc hit hard by tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidies

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) speaks onstage during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 19, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Crockett roasts MTG over retirement

Alex Galbraith

The Texas congresswoman clowned Greene for being unable to "take the heat"

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 04: New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani celebrates as he takes the stage at his election night watch party at the Brooklyn Paramount on November 4, 2025 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Mamdani defeated Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa in the closely watched election for New York City mayor. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Mamdani: White House visit was no stunt

Alex Galbraith

The mayor said he's committed to working with Trump while still believing the president is a fascist

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as Agnes Borg Pettersen and Elle Fanning as Rachel Kemp in "Sentimental Value" (Kasper Tuxen Andersen/Neon)

"Sentimental Value" speaks without words

Coleman Spilde

Joachim Trier's tender film explores the shame in being unable to communicate with those we're supposed to love

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin (D - MI) delivers a speech on a "new vision" for America's national security at the Council of Foreign Relations on September 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Slotkin: Trump threats are a distraction

Alex Galbraith

The senator said Trump's bluster is meant to draw eyes away from the Epstein files

Mashed potatoes and gravy (Ryan Benyi Photography / Getty Images )

Why we call the good stuff "gravy"

Ashlie D. Stevens

How a simple sauce became a linguistic stand-in for luck, ease — and the moments that make us say, “It’s all gravy"

Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA is starting to see the real Trump

Heather Digby Parton

Once viewed by MAGA voters as a regular guy, Trump is now seen as part of the elite they despise

President Donald Trump meets with New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Nov. 21, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump can't resist handsome men in suits

Jason Kyle Howard

Zohran Mamdani is just the latest babe to win POTUS’ affections

Thanksgiving holiday pie (Getty images/kajakiki)

MAGA's war on poor hurts everyone

Kirk Swearingen

The government shutdown may be over, but we can't forget which party wants to punish working people

Epstein abuse survivor Lisa Phillips speaks during the press conference on the Epstein Files Transparency Act at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Jeffrey Epstein is not unique

Kate Price - The Conversation

Child sex trafficking perpetrators are primarily white men, with wealth and power

New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (L) and President Donald Trump met in the Oval Office to find common ground after a contentious political race, including Trump saying it's fine for Mamdani to call him a "fascist." (Demetrius Freeman / Getty Images)

Trump: Mamdani can call him a "fascist"

CK Smith

Oval Office encounter between Trump and Mamdani sparks discussion about rivals, politics and labels

Somali-Americans and refugees in Minnesota are concerned about possible ramifications of Trump's latest social media proclamation. State officials like US Rep. Ilhan Omar (L) and State Sen. Omar Fateh are both of Somali heritage and pledged to support the large Somali population in their districts. (Stephen Maturen / Getty Images)

Trump: End Somalian refugee status in MN

CK Smith

Trump might end Somali refugee status in MN, drawing condemnation from MN Rep. Ilhan Omar and local leaders

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